The new study tested the power of napping on 41 students. The students were taught 90 words and 120 unrelated word pairs, and then split into two groups. One group was allowed to take a nap, while the other was given a DVD to watch. Both groups were tested on the words they had been taught, with the napping group performing the best.
Professor Axel Mecklinger, who supervised the study, said: “A short nap at the office or in school is enough to significantly improve learning success. Wherever people are in a learning environment, we should think seriously about the positive effects of sleep.
Even a short sleep lasting 45 to 60 minutes produces a five-fold improvement in information retrieval from memory.Enhancing information recall through sleeping doesn’t require us to stuff bulky tomes under our pillow. A concentrated period of learning followed by a short relaxing sleep is all that’s needed.”
A similar study was conducted by German scientists who have identified a link between sleep and babies’ development in their first years of life. It proved thata lengthy nap is a simple key to learning and great memory in a child’s early years. Once again science showed the magic power of sleep.
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